About Keith
Dr. Keith Cates uses a practical, person-focused approach to help people move forward. He draws on 16 years of experience and holds LPC and LMHC credentials.
He speaks plainly and aims to make sessions feel understandable and useful. He focuses on trauma and abuse, stress and anxiety, depression, and self-esteem challenges. He also helps with relationship and intimacy-related concerns, career questions, parenting stress, sleep problems, and coping with life changes.
Background and approach
Additional areas include kink and BDSM culture, polyamory and non-monogamous relationship issues, and challenges faced by veterans and first responders. In sessions he adapts the work to each person's needs. He uses approaches such as Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing, mindfulness practices, existential ideas, and solution-focused techniques.
That means some weeks look at past events that still cause pain and other weeks focus on practical steps to change routines or handle stress. He aims for straightforward conversation, clear goals, and tools people can use between meetings. That may include short mindfulness exercises, steps to manage sleep, or focused plans for problem areas at work or home.
The emphasis is on what helps you feel more steady day to day. His practice is based in Alabama and he works with people in English. He frames the work as a collaborative process and encourages people who are ready to take a first step toward change to begin with a short matching questionnaire.
Therapeutic approaches adapted for online care
Dr. Cates incorporates EMDR and mindfulness into remote sessions so people can address traumatic memories and learn calming skills that help in daily life. EMDR involves guided attention and processing of distressing memories to reduce their emotional hold, which can be done in structured video or phone work. Mindfulness therapy teaches simple attention and breathing practices to reduce overwhelm and improve sleep and focus.Finding the right approach is a collaborative process. The therapist will discuss goals, preferences, and life demands, then suggest which methods to try first. This approach allows adjustments over time based on what the person finds most helpful.
Online therapy offers flexibility through video calls, phone sessions, live chat, and text-based messaging. Video calls are useful for deeper conversation and EMDR-style work, phone sessions can be easier when bandwidth is limited, live chat supports shorter check-ins, and text messaging helps keep momentum between appointments. These options make it easier to fit therapy into work, family, or travel schedules while still focusing on practical change.
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What this counselor works with
Most often
- Trauma and abuse
- Self esteem
- Career difficulties
Also listed
- BDSM, kink, and alternative sex culture
- Compassion fatigue
- Coping with life changes
- Coping with natural or human-caused disaster
- Depression
- Emptiness
- Fatherhood issues
- First responder issues
- Intimacy-related issues
- LGBT
- Men's issues
- Parenting issues
- Polyamory / non-monogamous relationships
- Post-traumatic stress
- Relationship issues
- Sleeping disorders
- Stress, Anxiety
- Veteran and Armed Forces Issues
Therapeutic approaches
- Experience
- 16 years
- Licensed
- Alabama, Florida, Georgia
- Languages
- English